Comment by h4ny
7 days ago
> and they expect the coming storm because they seek what follows.
Well, a lot of economists, including one Nobel Prize winner (Paul Krugman) have commented on this being a bad idea for the economy...
On the off chance that those people who are supposed to know what they are talking about are all wrong and haven't thought about it being some genius diversion tactics -- it's generally still a pretty bad idea for a government to effectively ask everyone to "tough it out" and "just trust me bro".
It's really disappointing that people are actually trying to theorize this as some kind of genius plan. It doesn't take a genius to figure out the amount of irreparable damage they have already done to regular folks is unacceptable (uh... I'm sure some nutters out there think that DOGE is keeping track of all the damages they have done and will pay everyone once their genius plans have worked out).
That kind of logic really amazes me.
paul krugman isnt useful example because he is a liberal democrat and people will try to say thats why he said its stupid. even though hes right and it is stupid. plenty of conservative economists are basically saying wtf Bro to these tarrifs. Sadly that will also probably not help but it has more of a chance to do something